Conference Program

8:00-9:00
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00-15:00
15:00-16:00
16:00-17:00
17:00-18:00
18:00-19:00
19:00-20:00
20:00-22:00
Monday (October 26)
Registration (9:15)
Tuesday (October 27)
Registration (8:15)
Poster Madness
Poster Session (PS1)
with Lunch Box
Poster Madness
Wednesday (October 28)
Registration (8:35)
Poster Madness
Poster Session (PS3)
with Lunch Box
MIREX Panel Discussion
MIREX Poster Session
with Coffee
Thursday (October 29)
Registration (8:35)
Poster Madness
Poster Session (PS4)
with Lunch Box

Monday (October 26, 2009)

10:00-13:00 Tutorials AM

14:30-17:30 Tutorials PM

Tuesday (October 27, 2009)

09:00-09:20 Opening Remarks

09:20-10:20 Keynote Talk

Chair: Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University, Canada)

10:50-12:30 Oral Session (OS1)

Session Title: Knowledge on the Web
Session Chair: Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research Inc., USA)

Session Title: Performance Recognition
Session Chair: Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

12:30-12:41 Poster Madness

12:41-14:30 Poster Session (PS1)

14:30-15:30 Oral Session (OS2)

Session Title: Tempo and Rhythm
Session Chair: Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

15:30-15:41 Poster Madness

15:41-17:00 Poster Session (PS2)

17:00-18:00 Oral Session (OS3)

Session Title: Musical Instrument Recognition & Multipitch Detection
Session Chair: Juan Pablo Bello (New York University, USA)

18:00-20:00 Shakuhachi Concert & Reception

The Shakuhachi concert will take place in the International Conference Room and the reception will take place in the International Conference Room and the Reception Hall, directly following the concert. See Social Program page for more information.

Wednesday (October 28, 2009)

09:00-10:20 Oral Session (OS4)

Session Title: Music Recommendation & Playlist Generation
Session Chair: Douglas Turnbull (Swarthmore College, USA)

10:50-12:30 Oral Session (OS5)

Session Title: Tags
Session Chair: Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest, USA)

12:30-12:41 Poster Madness

12:41-14:30 Poster Session (PS3)

14:30-15:30 MIREX Panel Discussion

15:30-17:00 MIREX Poster Session (with Coffee)

17:00-18:00 Oral Session (OS6)

Session Title: Similarity
Session Chair: Roger B. Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Thursday (October 29, 2009)

09:00-10:00 Keynote Talk

Chair: Nakadai Kazuhiro (Honda Research Institutes, Japan)

10:30-12:30 Oral Session (OS7)

Session Title: Harmonic & Melodic Similarity and Summarization
Session Chair: Emilia Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

12:30-12:41 Poster Madness

12:41-14:30 Poster Session (PS4)

14:30-15:30 Oral Session (OS8)

Session Title: Lyrics
Session Chair: Bryan Pardo (Northwestern University, USA)

15:45-17:15 Panel Discussion

17:30-18:30 General Meeting

The inaugural ISMIR General Meeting will be held in the International Conference Room. The election results for the ISMIR Board of Directors will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to attend this historical event.

19:30-22:00 Banquet

The conference banquet will be held at the Kobe Kachoen (the bird and flower park). See Social Program page for more information.

Friday (October 30, 2009)

09:00-10:00 Special Session: 1st Workshop on the Future of MIR

The PDF files of the papers in this special session are available at the f(MIR) official website.
  • Welcome and Introduction to the f(MIR) workshop
    Thierry Bertin-Mahieux

Oral Session 1: MIR, where we are, where we are going
Session Chair: Amélie Anglade (Queen Mary, University of London), Program Chair of f(MIR)

  • Meaningful Music Retrieval
    Frans Wiering
  • The Discipline Formerly Known As MIR
    Perfecto Herrera, Joan Serrà, Cyril Laurier, Enric Guaus, Emilia Gómez and Xavier Serra

Oral Session 2: Potential future MIR applications
Session Chair: Jason Hockman (McGill University), Program Chair of f(MIR)

  • Machine Listening to Percussion: Current Approaches and Future Directions
    Michael Ward
  • MIR When All Recordings Are Gone: Recommending Live Music in Real-Time
    Marco Lüthy and Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Poster Session

  • Global Access to Ethnic Music: The Next Big Challenge?
    Olmo Cornelis, Dirk Moelants and Marc Leman
  • The Future of Music IR: How Do You Know When a Problem Is Solved?
    Eric Nichols and Donald Byrd

09:00-11:00 Late-Breaking / Demo Session (Non-peer-reviewed)

11:00-13:00 Oral Session (OS9)

Session Title: Folk songs
Session Chair: Remco C. Veltkamp (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherland)

Session Title: Sociology & Ethnomusicology
Session Chair: Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherland)

13:00-13:40 Concluding remarks